@article {anderson_deformation_2025,
	title = {Deformation on Rainbow Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Illuminated With Microearthquakes Detected by Machine Learning},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {52},
	number = {2},
	year = {2025},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2024GL111285},
	pages = {e2024GL111285},
	abstract = {Abstract Oceanic detachment fault systems are characteristic of slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges, where reduced magma supply leads to increased extension by faulting and exhumation of oceanic core complexes (OCCs). OCCs have complicated structure reflecting the interplay between magmatic, hydrothermal, and tectonic processes. We use microearthquake data from a 9-month ocean bottom seismometer deployment to image deformation structures in the Rainbow massif on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Using a machine-learning enabled workflow to obtain an earthquake catalog containing > {\vphantom} > \textbackslash68,000 events, we find seismicity occurred in distinct clusters that correlate with previously imaged velocity anomalies and dipping subsurface reflections. Our results are consistent with a dipping alteration front within the massif overlying late-stage intrusions and suggest a transpressional fault accommodates a non-transform offset north of the massif. Our results demonstrate OCCs continue to deform in a complex way after a detachment fault has been abandoned due to combined effects of tectonic stresses, magmatism, and alteration.},
	keywords = {detachment faults, machine learning, microearthquakes, oceanic core complex, slow spreading mid-ocean ridges},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111285},
	author = {Anderson, Evan C. and Parnell-Turner, Ross and Sohn, Robert A. and Fan, Wenyuan}
}
@article {gong_machine_2023,
	title = {Machine Learning-Based New Earthquake Catalog Illuminates On-Fault and Off-Fault Seismicity Patterns at the Discovery Transform Fault, East Pacific Rise},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {24},
	number = {9},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023GC011043},
	pages = {e2023GC011043},
	abstract = {Oceanic transform faults connect spreading centers and are imprinted with previous tectonic events. However, their tectonic interactions are not well understood due to limited observations. The Discovery transform fault system at 4{\textdegree}S, East Pacific Rise (EPR), represents a young transform system, offering a unique opportunity to study the interplay between faulting and other tectonic events at an early phases of an oceanic transform system. Discovery regularly hosts M5{\textendash}6 characteristic earthquakes, and the seafloor north of Discovery includes a 35 km-long rift zone that records a complex history of rifting, faulting and volcanism, suggesting that the transform faults likely interact with regional tectonic activity. We apply a machine-learning enabled workflow to locate 21,391 earthquakes recorded during a 1-year ocean bottom seismometer experiment in 2008. Our results indicate that seismicity on the western Discovery fault is separated into seven patches with distinct aseismic and seismic slip modes. Additionally, we observe a patch of off-fault seismicity near where seafloor abyssal hills intersect the rift zone. This seismicity may have been caused by varying opening rates as spreading rate decreases from north to south in the rift zone. Our findings suggest that the Discovery system is still evolving, and that system equilibrium has not been reached between rifting and faulting. These results reflect the complex yet rarely observed interactions between fault slip, plate rotation, and rifting which are likely ubiquitous at oceanic transform systems.},
	keywords = {fault segmentation, microseismicity, oceanic transform fault, rifting},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2023GC011043},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023GC011043},
	author = {Gong, Jianhua and Fan, Wenyuan and Parnell-Turner, Ross}
}
